Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.